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1) Seeing red
Author
Language
English
Description
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
4) Later
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume (HCC-147)
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer, who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Swede Levov is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter Merry has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood of the East End, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy. But after a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet. Gabriel Allon is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood.
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Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing...
Author
Publisher
Overlook
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Ronen, an expelled Mossad agent, vanishes after a failed assassination attempt against a Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel, Gadi, his former commander, must find Ronen before he harms both himself and his country.
11) The bomb maker
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
13) Imposter
Author
Series
Premier novels volume 2
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Deceptively easygoing, new FBI agent Matt Kelly becomes a hunter grimly determined to find his mother's elusive killer. He turns for help to the legendary Allen Pecard, an expert in unidentified assailants and serial imposters.
14) Vida
Author
Publisher
PM
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1960s Vida Asch was a darling of the exuberant antiwar movement--charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scot Harvath must endure the burning streets of Manhattan, where he can administer his own form of justice and finally exact his bitter revenge. July 4th weekend, New York City: As thousands of holiday travelers make their way out of Manhattan, a flawlessly executed terrorist attack plunges the city into a maelstrom of panic and death. Amid the chaos, an elite team of foreign operatives is systematically searching for one of their own, a man so powerful...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Emma had the perfect trifecta: good job, steady boyfriend, creative best friend. However, after one crackling, long-distance phone call, her world changed forever. Now she's having nightmares that threaten to disrupt the space-time continuum. But these nightmares, featuring a young girl named Lily, seem all too real, and Emma's waking life begins to be affected by the events that transpire in this mysterious wartime landscape. Sara Goudarzi navigates...
18) Sirocco
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A serial bomber is wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Former New York City cop Michael Finnigan and former Spanish assassin Katalin Fiero -- the brains behind St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a covert bounty-hunting operation based in Cyprus - may be the only ones who can stop the carnage. The partners have a reputation for tracking down the worst of the worst in international crime, all while staying firmly under the radar. But as they draw ever...
19) Firing point
Author
Series
Jack Ryan, Jr volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 6
Thorndike Press large print core
Jack Ryan Jr volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 6
Thorndike Press large print core
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small caf©♭. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the caf©♭ is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's...
Author
Series
Parker Stern novels volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Parker Stern's estranged mother, the enigmatic leader of the cultish Church of the Sanctified Assembly, shows up unannounced and asks him to represent a man named Ian Holzner-better known as the Playa Vista Bomber. In 1975, Holzner, an anti-Vietnam War radical, allegedly planted a bomb that killed four people. He's been a fugitive from justice ever since, but now apparently wants to turn himself in. At first, Parker refuses to take on the...
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